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Bailiff

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At Constantinople, the person who had charge of the imperial children used to be called the bajulus, from baios, a child. The word was subsequently attached to the Venetian consul at Constantinople, and the Venetian ambassador was called the balio, a word afterwards extended to any superintendent or magistrate. In France the bailli was a superintendent of the royal domains and commander of the troops. In time, any superintendent of even a private estate was so called, whence our farmer’s bailiff. The sheriff is the king’s bailiff—a title now applied almost exclusively to his deputies or officers. (See Bumbailiff.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bagatelle (A)
Baguette dArmide (La)
Bahagnia
Bahaignons
Bahr Geist (A)
Bail (French, bailler)
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